单词 | evirate |
释义 | † evirateadj. Obsolete. Castrated, emasculated; deprived of manly strength or vigour. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated geldedc1225 cutted1438 geltc1440 chaste1526 evirate1606 castrated1609 memberless1611 unpaveda1616 libbed1616 cut1624 eunuched1627 caponed1630 untesticled1668 castrate1704 eunuch1817 emasculated1830 eunuchal1878 neuter1893 eunuchoid1894 1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 15 The water..drunken, caused men to be evirate and effeminate. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvii. x. 321 A certaine esquier or targuetier, borne a verie evirate Eunuch. 1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. d3v Nature is not yet evirate, but holds out bravely. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). eviratev. transitive. To deprive of virility or manhood. a. To castrate (a male). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > infertile [verb (transitive)] > castrate or spay > castrate geldc1225 lib1396 cut1465 castrate1609 delumbate1609 enervate1610 unstone1611 gliba1616 evirate1621 emasculate1623 capon1630 eunuchize1634 eunuchate1646 caponize1654 unpollux1654 eunucha1658 unman1657 dismember1697 saturnized1846 nut1916 knacker1936 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 387 Many Philosophers and Diuines haue euirated themselues, and put out their eyes voluntarily the better to contemplate. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 30 Origen, and some others that have voluntarily evirated themselves. 1846 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. II. 280 The Pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to whoever should eviscerate and evirate him [Doctor Glaston]. b. To deprive of manly qualities or attributes; to render unmanly in character or appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [verb (transitive)] effeminate1531 womanish1561 feminine1583 womanizea1586 hermaphroditize1598 unman1599 woman1611 smock1614 effeminizec1616 evirate1627 disman1628 lady1656 emolliate1802 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 272 How doth it [idleness] euirate, un-man men? 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 131 Without..impiety [we] cannot..eradicate our Beard..but we must renounce that, and account it for a sport so fondly to Evirate ourselves. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 90 On thee whose life work preached ‘Raise soul, sink sense! Evirate Hermes!’ Derivatives ˈevirating n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration libbing1396 geldinga1398 castrationc1420 eviration1603 eunuchism1620 emasculation1623 evirating1657 mutilation1728 orchotomy1753 eunuchry1864 orchidectomy1870 asexualization1888 orchidotomy1892 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 245 Oh, look with shame..upon this wofull evirating, or dis-humaning yourselves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1606v.1621 |
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